3 month old still wakes every hour

[FirstTimeMomma95]

My baby is and has been since birth waking up every hour at night. Sometimes he will feed for maybe a minute or 2 and fall back asleep. I feel like he’s just waking up at the end of his sleep cycle and doesn’t know how to go back to sleep unless he’s feeding. I tried introducing a pacifier (or several different brands and types) but he will just spit it out or get more agitated if I insist in giving it to him so I just give up. Some sleep training methods say to give him time to settle back to sleep and only tend to him after a few minutes if he doesn’t stop crying but even that doesn’t work because he will keep crying or being fussy until I give him the breast. During the day he will feed every hour without fail and the pattern continues at night and I just don’t know what else to do as I haven’t been able to sleep any decent amount of hours since he was born. I tried to bottle feed him some pumped milk but it will always go to waste as he refuses to drink from the bottle. He is also putting weight really quick so I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my breast milk. Are there any mommas out there who can relate? Any success stories? I really need to hear someone who had the same issue and baby got over it eventually 🥱😞

Has he any signs of silent reflux at all? That woke my baby up loads and he comfort fed alot even with bottles, asked for food to soothe the discomfort. He got much better at sleeping once that was sorted (til the 5 month regression 😭).

My daughter was like this and unfortunately she was like this for quite a while. I can relate but have no advice other than try not to stress about sleep. If it helps to have the baby in bed DO IT. Do whatever you need to do to get through it because sleep deprivation is hideous.

I was so consumed by trying to mend her sleep and not fall into 'bad habits' that we didn't co-sleep. I wish we had because 5 years later we do basically co-sleep (she goes to sleep in her own room but comes into us during the night).

@Imisscoffee2021 he does wake up on occasion when he spits up but that’s usually a few minutes after a feeding. I really believe it’s related to his sleep cycle and he either doesn’t know how to soothe himself and/or is used to fall asleep on breast. I do recall when he was born I’d get really anxious whenever I heard him cry and would feed him straightaway before he got any more agitated and at the time it worked. I wonder if it’s just coming back to bite me now 😔

@kirinm I would try anything at this point as it’s becoming excruciatingly hard to wake up so often sometimes for 2 minutes only. From when did you start co sleeping? I’m scared to do it because he is only 3 month old but if I find a way to do it safely at the end of the day I will give it a try because no one benefits from me being sleep deprived 🥱

Has he improved any? Currently going through this with my daughter and at my wits end